<\/a>Many people think that the Stephen Colbert interview with Vice-President Joe Biden on Thursday, September 10 was seminal TV. Both had suffered tragic losses in their families and have done a remarkable job of picking up the pieces and moving on, while not forgetting how important the relatives whom they lost were to them.<\/p>\n In May, 2015, Biden\u2019s son, Beau, died from brain cancer. He was only forty-six. By all accounts, he was a remarkable man. He survived a devastating automobile crash in 1972 when he was only three. His mother and sister were killed and his brother seriously injured. He went on to become a very successful lawyer, in private practice, in the Delaware Army National Guard, and in state government, becoming Attorney-General of Delaware. Joe Biden said<\/a> of Beau, \u201cSuccess is when your children turn out better than you.\u201d<\/p>\n One of the interesting things that Joe Biden said about Beau<\/a> to Stephen Colbert was, \u201cHe had so much courage; he had so much empathy.\u201d That line really struck me, because I do not recall too many times hear the words courage and empathy in the same sentence. With the benefit of modern technology, I was able to download John F. Kennedy\u2019s Pulitzer Prize book, \u201cProfiles in Courage<\/a>.\u201d Doing a quick word search, I could not find the word \u201cempathy\u201d once in the book. I even double-checked on the word \u2018sympathy\u2019 because the two words were often confused in the 1950s when the book was written. Still zero.<\/p>\n